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At what point does this lunacy stop? When even rich people in Louisiana can’t find a goddamn dentist to pull their suppurating teeth in excruciating pain?

While he called the current proposal “a bad budget for higher education,” he said the situation would be devastating if the Legislature were to turn down the tax credit changes and fix the deficit on cuts alone. In that case, Mr. Alexander said, thousands of classes would have to be canceled, the state’s sole dentistry school and as many as half of the agriculture centers would have to close.

Experts believe that the mummy inside the statue is of Buddhist master Liu Quan, a member of the Chinese Meditation School.

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The Museum is of the view that probably the Buddhist master ‘self-mummified’ himself. This is a long painful process involving starving oneself progressively for several years.

Self-mummification used to be a mainly Japanese practice. Discovery News describes this tortuous process in the following way. For 1000 days the monk would eat only nuts and seeds, reducing body fat to a minimum. Then, for another 1000 days a diet of roots and barks would be consumed. In the last stages, the monk would drink a poisonous tea made from the sap of the Japanese varnish tree to induce vomiting and elimination of body fluids. The toxic nature of the infusion probably helped kill off bacteria too.

Then, the skeletal monk was put in a stone tomb just fitting around the body. An air tube and a bell were provided. Every day the monk would ring the bell indicating that he was alive. When the bell stopped ringing, it was known that he had died. His mummified body would then be removed after another 1000 days and preserved. Only a handful of monks achieved this stage after the long and grueling process.

What is the thought process going on in people’s minds who put their feet up on the train seat across from them, and grind the filth from the bottom of their shoes into it? Are they happy to sit on the shoe-bottom filth of other people?

“Effective immediately, no probate judge of the State of Alabama nor any agent or employee of any Alabama probate judge shall issue or recognize a marriage license that is inconsistent” with the Alabama Constitution or state law, the chief justice wrote in his order late Sunday.

Of course, when these retrograde right-wing degenerates rant and rave about TEH CONSTITOOSHUN!!!!!, what they are talking about is the unamended version that established ownership of other human beings as an inalienable property right.